Power Platform Migration Training June 2025

Before you use the native Power Platform environment moving feature for tenant-to-tenant migration because you are tempted by the “free” pricetag, keep in mind that the feature may not really be “free” and used to require a support ticket before it was surfaced to regular users only more recently due to the delicate nature of doing this sort of thing.

The other reason it may not really be “free” you can find out in what you can consider here to be a very small introduction to our Power Platform migration training June 2025 is in the very real sense that if you make any mistake using this tool, which can be likely in some cases with all the detailed prerequisites and limitations needed to keep in mind before doing any migration with this tool. If you are not careful, you may end up doing damage that costs way more than if you used even expensive alternatives like KingswaySoft, SSIS, Scribe, Integrate.io or the like – and that’s even at the very highest overpriced end, in some cases it may better to do even that than an even costlier mistake.

Besides this, keep in mind that there’s a lot of prerequisites and even some limitations that might not be easy to map out and any mistake may result in priceless irreversible damage (or damage that may be very costly to reverse to the point that it’s higher cost than using overpriced tools in some cases) such as even the loss or corruption of your entire environment if done in production.

However, have you ever wondered – is there really no other way out there that is more reliable than the free tool, but also might be better value for money and less expensive, less costly and even easier to use and work with than overkill solutions like KingswaySoft, SSIS, Scribe, Integrate.io or similar? The answer is there may be a better alternative to all of these you can consider: Dynamics Edge custom Power Platform migration services, including end to end migration service options for Office 365, Azure and more with competitive pricing tailored to your particular use cases and scenarios.

Well truth be told, even the overpriced products may not even include support for your full migration, such as say your Office 365 side as just one simple example. Even for just Power Platform, many parts may also be missing on that alone even with the expensive tools. You have to then hunt for yet other expensive overpriced products or even consultants to complete or worse, fix critical mistakes you may have made or reverse incomplete migrations in a hurry, which may be more expensive than the original migration itself. Instead you may want to consider doing it right the first time with competitively priced Dynamics Edge end to end migration services which can include evaluating your scenario for what you really need in terms of Office 365, Exchange, Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Power Apps, Custom Connectors, Canvas Apps, Cloud Flows, Desktop Flows, Power BI, API endpoints and many more considerations that may be hard to find all this in one place or at nearly the same competitive price elsewhere. For more information you can inquire within to Dynamics Edge on the pricing of our custom migration options and packages tailored to your specific situation.

With the native tool, you may also require experience with scripting such as PowerShell to use this feature successfully, without it you may not be able to use the feature at all or may use it incorrectly. Here you may want to consider some alternative options better suited for you, such as Dynamics Edge’s custom Dynamics 365 migration services, which include low-cost options involving the appropriate use of this tool and possibly other custom tools needed in certain scenarios where the Power Platform native tool actually didn’t support the migration of all your components outright.

Dynamics Edge offers some low-cost professional service, basic intermediate to advanced alternative to Integrate.io Dataverse and additional custom consultation options on Power Platform tenant-to-tenant migrations without expensive third party tools which can help you be more likely to avoid pitfalls that can cause the worst to happen if you’re not careful especially when using the free native Power Platform tool. Note that this tool is not appropriate for all Dataverse tenant-to-tenant migrations and scenarios, or it may be only appropriate for part of your migration but not all of it such as certain Office 365 components (mailboxes, etc.), Copilot components, or even certain types of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform components such as certain Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and even other components. There’s so many prerequisites and preparation steps for your alternative to Integrate.io for Dataverse in terms of tenant-to-tenant migrations some of which may take many valuable hours of your time to perform successfully – especially if you are not experienced in the area or may not have the right knowledge of the area even if experienced in some cases – and any mistake of performing the migration inappropriately may be very costly in some cases.

We can also guide you through the appropriate use of this tool for Dynamics 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations as well as the prerequisites you need. We can even evaluate if using the free native Power Platform tool as alternative to Integrate.io Dataverse migration and feature functionality may not really be an appropriate option at all (or for some parts, may not be sufficient or may result in incomplete results which also can be a costly mistake in some cases) in your specific scenario and look at other options that still can be lower cost than KingswaySoft, SSIS, Scribe, Integrate.io or other similar tools.

To check for alternative to Integrate.io for Dataverse migration without the potential costly mistakes of even using the free native tool on your own you may want to inquire to us at Dynamics Edge for specialty options that fit best with both your budget and your migration situation. Our custom offerings are competitively priced against what you get with alternatives like KingswaySoft, SSIS, Scribe, Integrate.io or other similar tools or services both on value for money and even on just the money itself tailored to fit your specific use case. Dynamics Edge services can be a better alternative in some cases than some overkill overpriced solution that offers far more than what you actually need and may even underperform or deliver far less value for money in areas that you actually needed for your scenario compared to our tailored offerings.

Tenant-to-tenant migration in Power Platform usually means moving a complete Power Platform environment (and its entire contents) from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another. Some complex types are when you want to move some things, but not others, which is a kind of scenario where using the free native tool can be a concern. Even when moving the whole environment there are some limitations and many prerequisites to consider. This type of moving scenario commonly arises during mergers, acquisitions, or organizational consolidation, and it is generally when multiple tenants need to be merged into one. Microsoft’s migration feature can sometimes be a good alternative to Azure Data Factory Dataverse migration but it depends on the scenario and there’s many prerequisites before using the tool appropriately.

Some use cases include things like a company acquisition (like moving the acquired company’s business apps into your parent company’s tenant). Another case is your tenant consolidation (reducing your IT overhead by having all of your Power Platform assets in just one tenant). In a tenant-to-tenant migration, your administrators can really aim to preserve your business continuity – that means all the applications, all automations, and all your data should continue to function after migration with minimal disruption to end users. However, achieving a good transition without much in the way of problems can really require addressing your user accounts, your data integrity, and your integration points that end up spanning beyond Power Platform itself (like for instance your connections to Office 365 services, your third-party connectors, etc.).

Migrating a Power Platform environment as an alternative to Azure Data Factory for Dataverse migration involves several key components, and of each which should be handled properly to avoid potential partial to total loss of functionality:

Dataverse Data and Tables (Entities): If your environment might includes a Dataverse database (such as in Dynamics 365 or your Dataverse-backed Power Apps), as an alternative to Azure Data Factory Dataverse you can consider to move all of your tables, rows, and data (which probably need to be migrated) using the native Power Platform migration tool. However, note that certain data integrations may require reconfiguration on your end post-move (for example, Dynamics 365 for Outlook clients, or server-side synchronizations with Exchange/SharePoint may need to be reset) which may not be fully addressed by the free native tool. Without paying attention to at least this, of which there are many similar possible components like this not even mentioned here, you may have problems with mail flow in your Dynamics CRM, Dynamics 365 or Dataverse apps. Depending on your scenario, this may be considered critical downtime, or even a partially failed migration. Considering that a successful production move in some cases, when it actually wasn’t may actually be more costly than doing it the right way the first time. This may be overlooked even if you did tests first because it was not noticed until the real thing when it’s far too late. You may want to use Dynamics Edge for Dynamics 365 migration services which could consider these aspects as well as additional ones not mentioned in this writing which may apply in your case and potentially should be of concern to you.

Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven): Power Apps themselves might not automatically move with the environment using the free native tool. Microsoft might explicitly require that Canvas apps be manually exported and also potentially have to be removed from the source environment before your migration. When it comes to using Power Platform migration tool as an alternative to Azure Data Factory for Dataverse it may still fall short compared to Dynamics Edge Dynamics 365 and Power Platform migration services because your solution-aware apps (those added into Solutions) and non-solution apps may end up first having to be exported as packages, then possibly even deleted from the source environment, and then potentially even later imported into the environment once it’s in the target tenant which may be a lot of manual steps that were not accounted for even in testing. These may be difficult or error prone to replicate or worse, might even just take too long to figure out how to complete or even to actually complete in some cases. The problem is that if you leave solution-aware apps in the environment during the move, they might not function afterwards in either environment (which is why they may need to be deleted pre-migration). Other components like Power Apps components, libraries and the like might also not be moved with the native tool and may also need similar special attention.

Power Automate Flows: Cloud flows may also need special handling as well to use tool as alternative to Azure data factory Common Data Service which is why Dynamics Edge Power Platform migration services may be a better solution in some cases. That’s because generally, only the Flows that were stored specifically as part of Dataverse solutions may be able to be migrated automatically with this tool. Administrators might have to add any standalone flows into a Solution before any migration. Microsoft provides a PowerShell cmdlet (‘Add-AdminFlowsToSolution’) to bulk add your existing flows into solutions for this reason. Note that if you are uncomfortable using PowerShell, you may be uncomfortable both using the free method or even the big overpriced advanced paid alternative methods which also may even still have at least some of the same caveats as those in this article about Flows, Canvas Apps, Mailboxes, Mail Flow, etc. In that case you may want to consider an easier alternative by using Dynamics 365 migration services by Dynamics Edge to address all of these issues – while it’s definitely not 100% free of charge like the native tool and it’ll cost you some money as that might be way too good to be true otherwise, honestly, it may be better priced and offer more value for money for what you’re looking for than the overpriced bulky paid tools which usually offer too much of what you don’t need, and sometimes too little of what you do need. It may be better value than the “free” native tool, because you may end up paying a lot more in other ways, like a failed migration.

If flows remain outside solutions, they might be left behind. After migration, flows might have to be turned back on and possibly their connections refreshed. All connection references used by flows might end up needing new Connections in the target tenant (e.g. re-authenticating you to SharePoint, Outlook, etc.) and also, flows must be manually started again. Any flows that tend to be triggered by webhooks or alternative to Azure Data Factory for common data service HTTP calls might get new endpoints after the move, which means any of your apps or services calling those flows might need to be updated to the new URLs. We can help you make a strategy on identifying what might need to be changed and what to watch out for in this regard.

Custom Connectors, Gateways, and Connections: These might not be migrated by the native tool at all. Your custom connectors, your connection references, and on-premises data gateway configurations as alternative to KingswaySoft Common Data Service the native tool might fall short compared with smoother Dynamics Edge Power Platform migration services because these all might have to be manually re-created or reconfigured in the target tenant after migration with the native tool and possibly even with the paid tools too. For example, suppose your Canvas app used a custom connector to one of your API endpoints. in that case you might need to set up that custom connector again in the new tenant and even reconnect the app to it. Any connections like an Outlook connection in your Flow or a SQL connection using a stored credential may need to be re-established using your accounts in the new tenant. This can be a significant area of effort as after the environment move, none of the OAuth connections might carry over so you should either budget time to manually re-authenticate connectors and update connection references for flows and apps or consider using some Dynamics Edge Power Platform migration services and solutions that can help you navigate these caveats with more ease and in a more streamlined way.

Power Pages (Portals): Power Pages (formerly Power Apps Portals) using native tool as alternative to KingswaySoft for Common Data Service might also fall short from Dynamics Edge Power Platform migration solution offerings because they might require extra special post-migration steps. Your portal’s underlying data (Web Pages, forms, etc., stored in Dataverse) might move with the environment, but the actual portal website would probably not be automatically re-provisioned. After your migration, your admin might have to provision a new portal in the target tenant’s environment by using the same Portal type and the same language. Failing to do this means your website won’t be accessible even though the data might be present. There’s also some cases where you have to to “reset” the portal prior to migration, which might even involve deleting the portal and later restoring it, so it can be reconfigured cleanly. You may or may not have to always do this, though it may instead be much easier to check with Dynamics Edge migration services instead of worry about these manual caveats.

User Accounts and Security Roles: When considering alternative to KingswaySoft SSIS and using the native tool instead, it may also not be as seamless as Dynamics 365 and Power Platform migration services by Dynamics Edge because the problem is you may not have even known that your users from the source tenant may need to be mapped to users in the target tenant to use the migration tool correctly, and how to do this may not be very clear and Dynamics Edge custom migration services may be a more seamless straightforward way to go about it.

Office 365 Mailboxes (Exchange): Migrating user mailboxes is actually outside the scope of the Power Platform migration feature, yet it’s very critical to consider as alternative to KingswaySoft for SSIS, it may even be outside the scope of paid tools but you may consider Dynamics 365 migration services by Dynamics Edge offerings instead for better results in some cases like potentially yours. That’s because if your Power Platform apps or Dynamics 365 modules do use Exchange (for example, Dynamics 365 email tracking, or flows that send emails from your user accounts), then you must migrate the Exchange mailboxes to the new tenant through Exchange-specific methods. Also, you should usually migrate and configure your user mailboxes in the target tenant before performing the Power Platform environment move. As for how to move the mailboxes, you can engage our Dynamics Edge Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, and Power Platform combo migration services and solutions which may be better value for you than piecemeal free or even paid (probably overpriced) solutions that barely considered your Exchange and Office 365 needs or worse, didn’t even consider them at all. The reason is that during your environment move, if a mapped user does not already have a mailbox in the destination, the free Power Platform tool will not work correctly as it won’t be able to connect that mailbox to your user’s account in Dataverse. You may have to manually reconfigure your users’ mailbox settings post-migration in that case. Make a note that the native tool probably does not copy any email messages or mailbox content that may instead be better handled by Dynamics Edge’s Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Office 365 and/or Exchange holistic tenant migration which may avoid piecemeal solutions (free, paid to the point of even being overpriced, or otherwise) that may end up being error prone or even result in failed migrations. Even in some cases where the email address stays the same and you’ve somehow pre-migrated the mailbox, D365 and Power Platform admins sometimes found they needed to re-enable or reapprove mailboxes for server-side sync in Dynamics 365 manually after the move and perform other difficult to detect or know additional post-migration tasks. It means that mailbox migration is almost a parallel project on its own. Power Platform migration can help you with how email integration settings recognize the new tenant’s mailbox (but only if the Exchange and O365 was done first and correctly), though all the data itself (emails, calendar, etc.) might be handled separately. If it hasn’t been handled at all, it may be even missing altogether from your whole migration strategy, which might not be good depending on the scenario.

SharePoint and OneDrive Integrations Many of your Power Automate flows or your Power Apps might connect to SharePoint lists, document libraries, or OneDrive. These connections as KingswaySoft alternative Power Platform may end up breaking upon moving to a new tenant because your URLs and authentication may change. SharePoint sites and OneDrive contents are not really handled by the Power Platform migration. That means if your solutions may depend on SharePoint data (e.g like an app reading a SharePoint list, or a flow writing files to your OneDrive or similar), then you might need a better strategy in order to migrate that data successfully (perhaps like using SharePoint migration serviced by Dynamics Edge for example) or else you may have to manually move that stuff and manually create new connections in the flows/apps to point to your target tenant’s SharePoint which can be tough. If your Dataverse environment has had SharePoint integration actually enabled for document management (quite common in Dynamics 365 scenarios), you may need to set up the SharePoint integration all over again in your target tenant’s SharePoint and also relink your document locations. Many SharePoint settings might need reconfiguration post-migration and it may be easier to instead use Dynamics Edge end to end migration services including considering SharePoint together with your Power Platform migration. All this also goes for any external data source integration (SharePoint, Azure SQL, Excel files, etc.) that may require special attention so that your apps and flows can connect to the new tenant’s resources. If you have any concerns about this, ask Dynamics Edge about our Microsoft end to end migration services which can potentially help you more effectively with this matter since the Power Platform native tool may not be an appropriate or complete solution for you on its own especially if you also need to move SharePoint stuff along with it among a number of key components you may need.

Unsupported Components: When it comes to using Power Platform tool as KingswaySoft alternative Dynamics 365 some pieces cannot migrate at all and may be better migrated with Dynamics Edge’s migration services. Some of these are even Dynamics 365 and Power Platform components. Noticeably, your Dynamics 365 Customer Voice (survey forms) projects will probably not move – while it’s possible the data might still exist in Dataverse, your Customer Voice app in the target tenant might not necessarily recognize or show those surveys. Other items that might not be supported include Omnichannel for Customer Service, and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights (both Journeys and Data). If your environment uses these, then migrating your environment could effectively break those products – so you might likely need to reimplement them in the target tenant all from scratch or pursue an alternative migration approach for those specific components such as Dynamics Edge end to end Power Platform and Dynamics 365 migration services. Also, for KingswaySoft alternative Power Platform migration any Dataverse environment that is tied to a Finance and Operations (ERP) environment probably cannot be moved across tenants due to tightly coupled integration, for this you may contact Dynamics Edge for Finance and Operations migration solutions and services. Understanding these kinds of limitations upfront is so important because if your environment includes unsupported components, the “free” and “native” “migration” might not really be a viable one-step solution for you as it may not really be an adequate substitute for a migration.

Keep in mind that when using the tool it is one-way and essentially irreversible which can be extremely dangerous to “try” on your production environment whereas using Dynamics Edge Power Platform migration services you can use safer alternatives such as migrating on a test version first and running a test end to end migration. This kind of safer kind where you can minimize chances of any number of things going wrong in production may be available for all our migration services, including those that may even be outside the scope of overpriced bulky solutions, even those like KingswaySoft and SSIS so Dynamics Edge end to end services may be a real solid KingswaySoft alternative Dynamics 365 migration for you and your critical organizational needs. Once an environment is moved to another tenant, moving it back might require performing another full migration but if it was already broken on the way forward, it may become even more broken on the way back so we recommend you use caution before using the free tool or any other tool and if anything here made you feel more uncomfortable, you may want to contact Dynamics Edge for safer, more viable alternatives. During an Exchange mailbox cross-tenant migration, for example, the process might even be irreversible. Even for Power Platform, if something goes wrong mid-migration with your KingswaySoft alternative for Power Platform migration (or even in some cases, even if you are using the real thing full price and not any alternative, yes it can still happen event then), you can’t really just simply cancel and revert using the free tool, so if you’re not sure, Dynamics Edge Dynamics 365 and Power Platform migration services and tools, which even for unsupported components like Office 365 have many options not to directly touch or mess with your real accounts until you have seen evidence of a full working test, at a fraction of the cost of even just the “Dynamics” side alternatives like KingswaySoft, Scribe, SSIS, Integrate.io or the like may be better value for money for you that you might want to consider.

On paper, when it comes to considering Kingswaysoft alternative for Dynamics 365 migration while Microsoft’s tenant “migration” feature is free – that is, you don’t pay Microsoft a fee to use it actually that “free” can be misleading when you consider the hidden costs, potential for irreversible errors on your part, and the expertise that may be required to really use this tool correctly. Many organizations discover that a DIY tenant migration can become more expensive than expected and this is where using Dynamics Edge custom migration services may help you save so much time, money, and effort. Here are some of the key hidden costs and risks:

Significant Planning and Labor Overhead : Power Platform may have a free “migration” tool, which may be considered as alternative to KingswaySoft for Power Platform migration but it doesn’t plan everything for you, nor might it support all of your migration as easily as you may think it does since it’s not really intended as a substitute for an actual migration, so it may be easier and more value for money to use Dynamics Edge custom Power Platform migration services instead. Otherwise, the migration is a whole project that can consume many hours (or even weeks) of an IT team’s time just on planning alone. Admins must invest time in analysis, preparation, exporting apps, writing scripts, testing, and validating. This is time that costs your business in IT labor. Without the right planning and tools, a promising migration project can fail or incur heavy delays, worse, even incur more costs than necessary in your alternative to KingswaySoft Power Platform migration failures instead of using more effective Dynamics Edge migration services with value for money tailored to your scenario. Even though you may think you’ve made the “smart move” and aren’t buying a “migration tool” and think you are getting away with a “free migration” using Power Platform’s native feature, the problem is that tool isn’t intended to be a substitute for a real migration, so you are probably instead “paying” far more in the form of staff hours and potentially needing to hire expensive consultants or use expensive extra tools anyway that the free tool could not cover for especially if your team lacks experience. Particularly for organizations with limited IT staff or those not deeply familiar with Power Platform’s intricacies, the learning curve itself is a cost and Dynamics Edge custom Power Platform migration solutions may help bridge the gap without breaking your bank by tailoring the solution to your scenario. If you are considering an alternative to KingswaySoft for Dynamics 365 migration you may be right to consider Dynamics Edge, because bulky catch-all overkill tools can tend to be more expensive than they need to be as they might overdeliver on some things, and even actually underdeliver or not provide or support some scenarios at all in some areas where you really need it. With Dynamics Edge custom migration services, we can work with you to get the best value for money on your migration and help give you what you really need to succeed.

Dependency on Scripting and Technical Expertise: The native approach as an alternative to KingswaySoft Dynamics 365 migration can look like a step in the right direction and look like you’re getting a free ticket out, but it may be too good to be true and a better value for money proposition using Dynamics Edge custom migration services may be a cheaper and overall more realistic solution that may actually even work for you. One reason out of many is that the native tool relies on PowerShell scripts and complex sequences of steps. For an IT admin not comfortable with scripting or the Power Platform’s admin APIs, this can be quite daunting. Any kind of mistakes in your scripts or steps can cause potentially catastrophic or worse, unrecoverable failures. This dependency on high technical skill means you might need to even bring in an expert or train up, which has associated costs that may actually be greater, possibly even alone in some cases. than using Dynamics Edge custom migration services. In contrast, some third-party tools provide more user-friendly interfaces (reducing skill requirements), but keep in mind that these tools may be far more expensive than Dynamics Edge custom migration services and the tools may deliver too much in a direction you don’t need, and too little in the direction you do need. That means you not only have to spend full price for possibly more than one of these overpriced tools just to get part of the job done, you have to shell out even more than that to close the gap compared to using less money for just all of it done right the first time on better value for money Dynamics Edge end-to-end custom migration services tailored to your specific scenarios and use cases.

Downtime and Business or Organization Disruption: Downtime itself can be very costly. If your alternative to KingswaySoft Power Platform merely ended up in extended downtime rather than an actual migration, and your sales team can’t use a critical CRM app for several hours, a whole day or even more than that, well it could really mean lost opportunities on your end that could potentially be avoided with Dynamics Edge custom migration services for Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and more. If your automated workflows are down, tasks might backlog. If something goes wrong and downtime extends even more, your business or org impact can be severe and your costs may compound even further than if you didn’t do the migration at all or took a different approach. These are many indirect costs of using the free tool – you may have to even schedule off-hours or weekend migration recovery emergency sessions (possibly incurring heavy overtime pay for staff or hefty fees on other consultants) to minimize business impact and recover from failures in a rush or panic to prevent things from spiraling even worse. When using Dynamics Edge custom migration services as alternative, you may get better value for money and minimize downtime as much as possible for a smoother migration experience and less costs due to panic and failures.

Meeting All Prerequisites Can Be Difficult The prerequisite steps (exporting, deleting, etc.) involved especially in alternative to KingswaySoft Dynamics 365 (and in some cases, even when using the real thing full price) are not just technically challenging, tedious, time consuming and too many – they’re even organizationally challenging. Convincing your users to pause development activity on the environment, or to freeze changes while you prepare the migration might be very hard. You need cooperation from your app owners to make sure no new app or flow is introduced at the last minute outside of your solutions. You may need to hunt down or tediously do large mappings on your user accounts and even match up with licensing which may take a while just by itself in some cases. If any prerequisite is missed (for instance, you forget to delete a solution-aware Canvas app), the result can be irreversible damage like that app being non-functional after migration. In such a case, your “free” native tool might have just cost you far more in a full app rebuild effort. Instead, maybe a reasonably priced alternative to Power Platform “free” native tool, and a better alternative to more overpriced SSIS, Scribe, KingswaySoft, Integrate.io or similar tools (that may not even fully do what you wanted in the first place) can be a better value for money option with Dynamics Edge custom migration products, services and solutions that can help you make the most of your migration and possibly can be the alternative you were looking for all along to get better migration value for your money.